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From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
To: tom.leiming@gmail.com
Cc: arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] driver core:firmware:fix request_firmware_nowait
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 13:15:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090518131524.6e63f3e6@gondolin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1242482058-5203-2-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com>

On Sat, 16 May 2009 21:54:18 +0800,
tom.leiming@gmail.com wrote:

> @@ -646,14 +646,12 @@ request_firmware_nowait(
>  		.uevent = uevent,
>  	};
> 
> -	task = kthread_run(request_firmware_work_func, fw_work,
> -			    "firmware/%s", name);
> -
> -	if (IS_ERR(task)) {
> +	ret = async_run_inatomic(request_firmware_work_func, fw_work);
> +	if (ret) {
>  		fw_work->cont(NULL, fw_work->context);
>  		module_put(fw_work->module);
>  		kfree(fw_work);
> -		return PTR_ERR(task);
> +		return ret;

You change the return code from an usual error code to a boolean value
here...

>  	}
>  	return 0;
>  }
 

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-18 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-16 13:54 [PATCH 1/2] kernel:async function call:introduce async_run_inatomic(v3) tom.leiming
2009-05-16 13:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] driver core:firmware:fix request_firmware_nowait tom.leiming
2009-05-18 11:15   ` Cornelia Huck [this message]
2009-05-18 11:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] kernel:async function call:introduce async_run_inatomic(v3) Cornelia Huck
2009-05-18 13:58   ` Arjan van de Ven

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